Comments on: Youth-Oriented Media Company GoFish Raises $22.5 Million

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[...] with cash from its recent $22.5 Million funding round, “attention based” media company Betawave (previously dubbed GoFish) – is bringing in [...]

By: green grapes

green grapes — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:09:25 +0000

they don’t advertise their site. They make their money selling ad space for other companies sites. Thats why the uniques don’t match up. It because these are the uniques of their clients sites (i.e. The sites they market market ad space for). They don’t own these sites themselves.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:55:37 +0000

Is this a real site? Can’t find it anywhere…

By: Geoffrey Arone

Geoffrey Arone — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:59:13 +0000

You have no idea what you are talking about. GoFish generated $2.8MM of revenue this last quarter alone! Last year they did only $541K for 9 months.

Here is a link to their 10Q. Yes they are public

http://www.sec....v132086_10q.htm

By: Dvd R Media

Dvd R Media — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:15:38 +0000

[...] YouthOriented tMedia t Company GoFish Raises 22.5 Million(07 December 2008) GoFish, a digital tmedia t company that focuses on content geared towards children, teenagers, and their parents, has raised a 22.5 million funding r… [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:30:59 +0000

Chandra – this is their corporate site…it would be silly to monetize it. Go Fish is an ad network selling display and custom integrated programs.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:32:15 +0000

69 million unique visitors worldwide (1/3 coming from the U.S.??) is a big # to flaunt. comScore MediaMetrix for Oct-2008 shows 4.1 million total uniques for the GoFish network property (U.S. only).

http://i37.tiny...c.com/u55ea.jpg

The largest site in their network is under 1.5 MM uniques. Either they are great liers or all the unlisted sites in their network don’t think much of GoFish as they haven’t assigned their traffic to be listed within the parent property (good luck winning significant advertising $$).

By: еlvirs Salmanov

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:06:45 +0000

”content geared towards children, teenagers, and their parents”
who’s left?

By: Geoffrey Arone

Geoffrey Arone — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:40:30 +0000

Folks, the URL you are looking for is here: http://www.gofishcorp.com

By: Chaz Chung

Chaz Chung — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:33:14 +0000

GoFish = Shady

TC: Read your own previous posts on the company please.

http://www.tech...e-and-ad-rates/

By: chandra

chandra — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:28:17 +0000

http://www.myjil.com is fun site with less than 1000 usd investiment and its not worth thinking about raising capital

All i am saying is , In current economic raising 22 million is big deal! I am clueless on how they are going to generate revenue using there social network sites (as they are not open platforms like facebook!

Personally i liked weeworld then gofish.com!

chandra
http://www.myjil.com

By: fb694376681

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:30:17 +0000

By: Gordon Page

Gordon Page — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:04:13 +0000

Ha ha.

By: moker

moker — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:56:32 +0000

Wow….while these guys have great traction…they got like near-no revenue and eyeballs of kids not focused on buying. maybe they can monetize but to me the bigger risk is staying competitive as more and more sites enter realm. this is a big bet by some 2nd tier VCs!!!

By: Commentor

Commentor — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:50:30 +0000

What business is it of yours?

Besides, you seriously think showing ads is the only way to monetize?

I would agree with you had you said “No idea how they are generating revenue with http://www.myjil.com“.

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Valuator — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:46:59 +0000

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By: fb694376681

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:37:54 +0000

Correct. Very sour grapes.

By: Dina

Dina — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:35:54 +0000

Is this Jay Gould of Bolt Media? Bolt Media that Gofish attempted to acquire? The Bolt Media that was sued for copyright violations leading to bankruptcy, while you were at its helm?

Sounds like sour grapes.

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:04:17 +0000

GoFish is a really good website with good revenue potential. The fact that you’re not its targeted audience doesn’t mean there’s no audience. I’ve known several families whose kids love gofish and have mentioned about products they’ve seen on gofish to influence their parents to buy.

Accuse them all you want, they got the investment, you didn’t. =) Jealous?!?

By: chandra

chandra — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:53:26 +0000

No idea how they are generating revenue with http://www.gofish.com, i dont see any ad or product promotions !

I am not sure what kind of revenue modle , financials projections, marketing strategis they have as youtube, google and other big players occupied this segment!

Chandra

http://www.myjil.com

By: Not Impressed

Not Impressed — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:30:30 +0000

The url gofish.com says The webpage at http://gofish.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

So I guess they are not interested in a return on their investment anytime soon. Whatever good for them, if you are going to con someone it might as well be big.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:00:15 +0000

did the investors look at there site ?

By: Hüseyin Erkmen

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:51:41 +0000

they are not good as http://www.iamlittle.net

By: Jay Gould

Jay Gould — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:50:10 +0000

Would rather have seen them go bankrupt

By: fb10001378

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:48:31 +0000

Cool